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Speaker 4: All right, let's get it started. Welcome in, Happy, Happy
Speaker 4: hump Day. Still having a tough time realizing what day
Speaker 4: it is. If I give it a little thought, I
Speaker 4: think I can. I can figure out what da it is.
Speaker 4: Today's Wednesday. But with the holidays and with the snow stuff,
Speaker 4: it just hasn't. We haven't had a normal week in
Speaker 4: a while.
Speaker 2: But that's okay.
Speaker 4: That's okay, And I'm not really sure if we're gonna
Speaker 4: have a normal week for a while because it's still snowing.
Speaker 4: I walked in today, still snowing outside here in downtown Louisville,
Speaker 4: and it's kind of been snowing all day.
Speaker 2: I mean, I was out running errands earlier.
Speaker 4: Today, took the kids to daycare, took my daughter to
Speaker 4: sitter because she doesn't have school, and I don't remember
Speaker 4: hearing we were gonna get snow. It doesn't look like
Speaker 4: it's really causing any big issues. I'm not seeing any accumulation,
Speaker 4: nothing sticking to the roads, at least where I'm at.
Speaker 4: But it's been snowing all day, and we've got more
Speaker 4: snow coming on Friday.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 4: People are scared of it, but I'm somebody that's kind
Speaker 4: of cool with snow, right Like, I don't mind if
Speaker 4: we're gonna get cold weather. I don't mind snow at all.
Speaker 4: But if we end up having the winter weather that
Speaker 4: they are, I guess expecting this to be one of
Speaker 4: the worst winters we've had in a while, that may
Speaker 4: get old, that may get a little little frustrating. I mean,
Speaker 4: I was already stir crazy enough. I could have stayed
Speaker 4: home and done the show today, but I wanted to
Speaker 4: be in. I wanted to get out. I wanted to,
Speaker 4: you know, see people, see faces like the one and
Speaker 4: only Austa Montgomery, who's with me here today. So let's
Speaker 4: let's just dive right in. As you know, we're gonna
Speaker 4: take you up till six o'clock. We'll have some fun.
Speaker 4: But once again, we have to continue to discuss this this,
Speaker 4: I mean this Louisville basketball team.
Speaker 2: I was thinking all day, like, if I just go.
Speaker 4: In and just start going off the cuff here and
Speaker 4: expressing how I feel as a fan, expressing, you know,
Speaker 4: just from a basketball standpoint, what's really impressed me with
Speaker 4: this team. It'll probably be a little much. I'll probably
Speaker 4: be getting ahead of myself, but I kind of can't
Speaker 4: help it. I last night, once again, another phenomenal night
Speaker 4: at the Center, a night that felt like what it
Speaker 4: used to feel like. Right in fact, it kind of
Speaker 4: feels better. I don't think anybody likes that Louisville has
Speaker 4: been in the situation they've been in in recent years
Speaker 4: and even this year. Right like, they're having a good season,
Speaker 4: and clearly they seem to get better every time we
Speaker 4: see them in the last couple of weeks. But you know,
Speaker 4: this is a big bounce back year already because of
Speaker 4: what's happened in recent years. So again I keep realizing
Speaker 4: that what happened the few years where things were just
Speaker 4: in a place should never thought they'd ever be when
Speaker 4: it comes to Louisville basketball. I can't even say there's
Speaker 4: like a you know, there's a positive to that, or
Speaker 4: there's even a silver lining. But it happened, and now
Speaker 4: things like last night feel even better than they've ever
Speaker 4: they ever have, at least for me. So another impressive
Speaker 4: win for Louisville. And I can't get over how well
Speaker 4: they're playing right now. They're they're still not shooting the
Speaker 4: three ball well last night twenty nine percent from three
Speaker 4: to eight of twenty seven. I think Louisville's three leading
Speaker 4: scorers really quiet. You didn't get a whole lot from Chucky. Hepburn,
Speaker 4: he finished with I mean he played well, but overall
Speaker 4: he was what was he.
Speaker 2: I mean six? Why does it not show me?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: He had nine points. Was oh one of six from three?
Speaker 4: I mean overall, Chucky was one of ten from the
Speaker 4: field and made six of his a free throws. It
Speaker 4: was good in other areas, but Chuck, he didn't have
Speaker 4: a good game when it comes to just you know, production,
Speaker 4: when it comes to I guess just points. Overall, he's
Speaker 4: one of your leading scorers. He had a quiet night.
Speaker 4: Same thing for rain Smith. Just three points for Rain
Speaker 4: who'd been on fire as of late. Terrence Edwards only
Speaker 4: had five points, but it didn't matter because you had
Speaker 4: other guys step up, and nobody stepped up more so
Speaker 4: than Javon Hadley. What a game thirty two points to
Speaker 4: go along with ten boards, four assists. I mean, he
Speaker 4: was phenomenal. I mean, it's I was gonna say it
Speaker 4: sounds crazy, but it's true. I don't think it sounds crazy.
Speaker 4: If you watched last night, it was one of the
Speaker 4: better performances from an individual player at Louisville in a
Speaker 4: long long time. I'm not sure how I mean, I'm
Speaker 4: not sure if there was anybody that's had thirty plus
Speaker 4: points in a long time. I know the last guy
Speaker 4: to just go off and score a ton of points
Speaker 4: was probably Jordan Warra and that was five years ago,
Speaker 4: which is crazy to think. Didn't that crazy to say
Speaker 4: out loud Austin that it's been five years since war played.
Speaker 3: So long since he was there.
Speaker 4: I feel like it's been a few years. You feel
Speaker 4: like it's been longer than five years.
Speaker 3: It's I mean one was it twenty nineteen.
Speaker 2: Twenty twenty, so it's the COVID year.
Speaker 4: Okay, So and that's that's that whole Yeah, that whole
Speaker 4: window of time there. It really just it Sometimes it
Speaker 4: feels like it was the other day. Sometimes it feels
Speaker 4: like it was ten years ago.
Speaker 5: So, well, Chucky had that big game in the Bahamas,
Speaker 5: that's true.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it wasn't thirty right, Actually, no, you're right. He
Speaker 3: had the steals.
Speaker 5: That that what's made it because I know we had
Speaker 5: like maybe twenty seven, twenty points and like seven.
Speaker 2: Oh, you're right, you're right. He was in he was
Speaker 2: in the thirties.
Speaker 3: Oh so we did get the thirties. Okay, So I
Speaker 3: mean that just goes a show.
Speaker 4: Now I'm curious to see what it was. Was it
Speaker 4: against West Virginia? Yes, yeah, in that game, Chucky had
Speaker 4: let's see you get thirty exactly thirty two. I'm sorry,
Speaker 4: look at that. So thirty two for Chucky. So I
Speaker 4: guess technically we've got let's see what. Let's see Javon's numbers.
Speaker 4: He finished with.
Speaker 2: Thirty two. So thirty and thirty two. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean, here I am thinking it's been forever. It's
Speaker 4: been a you know, maybe a month, because Chucky went
Speaker 4: off against West Virginia and it's not like I forgot
Speaker 4: about that. But Javon is not somebody that you would
Speaker 4: have ever expected to score. I mean he had a
Speaker 4: career high like at twenty, I think something like that.
Speaker 4: So just I can't stop raving about this team. I
Speaker 4: know that's probably not gonna make for great radio, So
Speaker 4: I'm going to try not to do it for three
Speaker 4: In fact, I won't do it for three straight hours.
Speaker 4: But you know, a lot of what I was saying
Speaker 4: when it comes to the takeaways and just you know
Speaker 4: what stood out from the win against North Carolina, I
Speaker 4: was saying the same thing after they did it against Virginia,
Speaker 4: and I'm saying it once again because it's the same
Speaker 4: type of stuff. It's, you know, defensively is where they
Speaker 4: really really have stepped up. I mean they were They've
Speaker 4: just been possessed defensively. I mean everybody out there there
Speaker 4: is such an attention to detail they're I mean, they're
Speaker 4: just so engaged from start to finish, Which that's one
Speaker 4: of those things you kind of just expect because you
Speaker 4: know that's what you're supposed to do.
Speaker 2: But I don't feel like.
Speaker 4: Earlier this year, when this team wasn't playing well and
Speaker 4: maybe it looked as if this team wasn't going to
Speaker 4: be able to even be in the position that they're
Speaker 4: in now even and then, you know, I don't feel
Speaker 4: like they were lazy. I don't feel like they were loafing.
Speaker 4: But now they're just playing with energy. That is it
Speaker 4: stands out in a major way. And I try to
Speaker 4: remind myself that the ACC is not, you know, meeting
Speaker 4: the wins against Carolina, Virginia and last night Clemson. You know,
Speaker 4: I guess those wins aren't necessarily going to be as
Speaker 4: impressive to outsiders just because they don't value the ACC.
Speaker 4: But Louisville can't control that. In Clemson, I don't know
Speaker 4: how good they actually are, but they beat Kentucky, which
Speaker 4: last Dot check, they're still a pretty good team. I
Speaker 4: know they lost last night kind of got not blown out,
Speaker 4: but really, you know, they never really, I don't think
Speaker 4: it ever felt like they were going to win the game,
Speaker 4: at least from you know, midway through the first half on.
Speaker 4: So again, I'm starting and the reason I'm spending my
Speaker 4: wheels here is because I'm kind of starting to think, like,
Speaker 4: all right, maybe they're gonna get like a really.
Speaker 2: Good seed, Like maybe we.
Speaker 4: Should start thinking about this team not just making the tournament,
Speaker 4: maybe making a run, which I don't think anybody would
Speaker 4: be against, sort of embracing that and having that as a,
Speaker 4: you know, something to look forward to, knowing that it's
Speaker 4: not guaranteed, but hey, it could happen, because I think
Speaker 4: we're kind of there, but I don't know. Like the
Speaker 4: acc makes it so hard to know what the ceiling
Speaker 4: is for this team when it comes to the seed line,
Speaker 4: because last night their win against Clemson, I mean they've
Speaker 4: played a team that on paper is I mean like
Speaker 4: after this, you only have three more chances to get
Speaker 4: wins that would you know, probably do a whole lot
Speaker 4: for you when it comes to value. On selection Sunday,
Speaker 4: the Lowell's now up to thirty seven in the Ken
Speaker 4: Palm with their victory last night. Clemson still is Clemson
Speaker 4: right now now is let's see where they ended up
Speaker 4: after last night. They're sitting at thirty four, so you
Speaker 4: know that's still a win with value. Now you've got
Speaker 4: to go play Pitt who got blown out at Duke
Speaker 4: last night. As we mentioned, SMU's solid at least as
Speaker 4: of right now, they're there. That's a game you've got
Speaker 4: later on this month and then you play pitt again
Speaker 4: when they I think, you know, yeah, you played pitt
Speaker 4: towards the end of the season at home. But you know,
Speaker 4: it's kind of awesome to say, okay, after this Pit game,
Speaker 4: not to say you're gonna win out, but really that
Speaker 4: road game at Pit it's the last game you can
Speaker 4: look at on paper and say, wow, that's going to
Speaker 4: be just extremely tough because one, this team's really really good,
Speaker 4: or because you're you know, you're on the road and look, I.
Speaker 2: Know they could loose anybody. We know that.
Speaker 4: As I mentioned, the the utp Eku game kind of
Speaker 4: reminded you that if you don't play well, you could
Speaker 4: slip up and lose to t teams that aren't very good.
Speaker 4: But getting through Carolina, Clemson, Pittsburgh, maybe you could throw
Speaker 4: Virginia on the road if you want. Although it didn't
Speaker 4: look like they're going to be very good at all
Speaker 4: this year, Like you've kind of and you've already got
Speaker 4: Duke out of the way. You didn't beat them, but
Speaker 4: that one's gone, that that game's already you know, happened.
Speaker 4: So after Saturday, like if they're able to win, which
Speaker 4: right now, the kin palm Formula projects a seventy eight
Speaker 4: to seventy three loss for Louisville, so a five point loss.
Speaker 4: But if they're able to win, like nobody should say,
Speaker 4: well they that means that they've shown that they're good
Speaker 4: enough to beat anybody left on the schedule. Therefore they
Speaker 4: should win out Like, I don't think we need to
Speaker 4: get I don't think anybody's going to get to that point.
Speaker 4: They're going to slip up lose to somebody. It's just
Speaker 4: going to happen. That's basketball. But I mean after Saturday,
Speaker 4: if they win there, I mean, I don't think it's
Speaker 4: crazy to look at not only this team as a
Speaker 4: team safely in the tournament. But again, maybe you start
Speaker 4: talking about getting a decent seed and they're doing all
Speaker 4: this beating teams by double digits, beating good teams by
Speaker 4: double digits, right, I mean making big comebacks. I'm not
Speaker 4: making me comebacks. But you know, withstanding some runs from
Speaker 4: other teams. That's what I meant to say, because last
Speaker 4: night Virginia made a little bit of a run and
Speaker 4: then Louisville quickly made one of their own and ended
Speaker 4: the game. Think against Carolina when you had them in
Speaker 4: town last week, Virginia. You just blew them off the floor.
Speaker 4: So they're doing all this and again things that you
Speaker 4: felt like we're gonna be really really important for this
Speaker 4: team to be good enough to make the tournament, to
Speaker 4: beat good teams. Those things aren't really working out right now,
Speaker 4: but it doesn't matter because they're playing so well. Everywhere
Speaker 4: else there clearly seems to be identified roles with this group.
Speaker 4: They're playing eight guys consistent minutes now because you've got
Speaker 4: Trail Ray back and he's clearly provided a whole lot
Speaker 4: of energy. I mean, I just don't I still don't
Speaker 4: know what the ceiling is, and I'm not sure we're
Speaker 4: ever really gonna know because of just how the ACC
Speaker 4: is this this year. But man, I'm starting to think
Speaker 4: not just hey, can they make the tournament. I'm starting
Speaker 4: to think, like, no, I know they can make the tournament.
Speaker 4: Let's see what kind of seed they can put together and.
Speaker 2: Maybe make a run.
Speaker 4: And maybe that's me getting way ahead of myself, but
Speaker 4: it's nice to at least be able to do that
Speaker 4: and not be a certified lunatic. Had we done that
Speaker 4: last year, you know at this time you would have
Speaker 4: been you would have you probably would have needed to
Speaker 4: be checked in, to be evaluated mentally, because you know,
Speaker 4: that wasn't real life. I thin guess at this point
Speaker 4: last year we were early. I mean, it was quite
Speaker 4: clear Louislle was not going to be a tournament team.
Speaker 4: So look, it's fun. I'm enjoying the ride, and I
Speaker 4: could tell a lot of Louisville fans are as well.
Speaker 2: The crowd that was there last night.
Speaker 4: In fact, I think it was a bigger crowd than
Speaker 4: what they had against Carolina as far as what was announced.
Speaker 4: So energy was great and it was it was awesome.
Speaker 4: I mean, what a night for Louisville. They win and
Speaker 4: their rival loses. Kentucky false eighty two to sixty nine
Speaker 4: on the road at Georgia. And again I try my
Speaker 4: best to kind of get a feel for how Kentucky
Speaker 4: fans view their team, and you know, because I think
Speaker 4: that's important to I mean, again, I'm gonna tell you
Speaker 4: what I think, but obviously, you know, Kentucky fans probably
Speaker 4: don't often think the way I do or share the
Speaker 4: same opinions that I have. But I think this Kentucky
Speaker 4: team has shown multiple times this year that when they
Speaker 4: get into a style, a pace that they like, and
Speaker 4: they are knocking down three point shots. They can play
Speaker 4: with anybody like. They're national championship contender when that happens. Right,
Speaker 4: the team they beat on Saturday, Florida, what did they
Speaker 4: do last night? They hosted Tennessee, the number one team
Speaker 4: in the country, who hadn't taken a loss until last night,
Speaker 4: and they beat them by thirty. So Kentucky's still really good.
Speaker 4: I think they know that, and they also know that
Speaker 4: they're vulnerable if things don't go their way right, if
Speaker 4: the game is a little bit slower, if it's really physical,
Speaker 4: then they may, you know, they may be in trouble.
Speaker 4: They may be really vulnerable to lose. And that's what
Speaker 4: happened last night. I did go back and watch a
Speaker 4: good chunk of that game. I did the what do
Speaker 4: you call it, the the condensed Yeah, the condensed version.
Speaker 2: I kind of skimmed through that. And you know, clearly, when.
Speaker 4: You got Kobe Brea shooting his rear end off one
Speaker 4: night and then the next night it's just not his night,
Speaker 4: that's going to change some things for you. He was
Speaker 4: two of nine last night, and look, they shot six
Speaker 4: of twenty five from three when Kentucky is shooting six
Speaker 4: of twenty five from three, and the game is played
Speaker 4: slow and the opponent is really using physicality to gain
Speaker 4: an edge. That's a recipe for Kentucky to lose a
Speaker 4: lot of games in the SEC one because that's a
Speaker 4: bad matchup for them, meaning that that's not where they
Speaker 4: When the game's played like that, they're they're not at
Speaker 4: their best, and night at a night out in the
Speaker 4: SEC this year, they're going to play some really good
Speaker 4: teams because that league is loaded, so great night for
Speaker 4: Louisville fans. Kentucky fans not so much. But I think
Speaker 4: they kind of know, hey, look, this is just a
Speaker 4: different world than what we used to have with Caliperry,
Speaker 4: meaning he could put endless amount of NBA talent out there,
Speaker 4: and you know, you're going to take your lumps, but
Speaker 4: in the end, if you're playing at your best, you're
Speaker 4: probably going to have better dudes than nearly everybody you play.
Speaker 4: That's so not what this Kentucky team is. They clearly
Speaker 4: have guys that you know, are veterans that have played
Speaker 4: a lot of college basketball that will not play in
Speaker 4: the NBA, and you know that just it's just a
Speaker 4: different world, and I think they. I think Kentucky fans
Speaker 4: like this team better than previous t teams just because
Speaker 4: of everything you know with Pope and and you know,
Speaker 4: just different. But if I was a Kentucky fan, what
Speaker 4: would worry me?
Speaker 6: Not?
Speaker 4: I wouldn't be worried. Oh we stink, we're lousy? Are
Speaker 4: we gonna make the tournament? And I don't think their
Speaker 4: fans are thinking that. But I just think you have
Speaker 4: to look at the rest of your schedule and realize, yikes.
Speaker 4: I mean, if you if you're gonna lose by double
Speaker 4: ditch just to Georgia at their place and really never
Speaker 4: never feel like you're gonna win because they just got
Speaker 4: off to a good start and seemingly never looked back.
Speaker 4: What are you gonna do when you go on the
Speaker 4: road to play Mississippi State, who's a better version of
Speaker 4: Georgia and even more physical. They really like to slow
Speaker 4: it down and beat you up. Then you got A
Speaker 4: and M. Now that's in home. But they're a good team.
Speaker 4: You got Alabama at home. They're a top ten team.
Speaker 2: You can beat.
Speaker 4: They can look they can beat these teams clearly because
Speaker 4: they've beat Duke, they knocked off Florida. They beat Gonzaga.
Speaker 4: I mean they've they've shown they can win. But I
Speaker 4: just think it's quite obvious there's gonna be teams that know, hey, no,
Speaker 4: we don't want to do that. We don't want to
Speaker 4: get into a game that's got endless and countless possessions.
Speaker 4: We want to slow it down in and get physical
Speaker 4: with them because that's where they're vulnerable. And oh, by
Speaker 4: the way, that's what we like to do. That's where
Speaker 4: we are in our comfort zone. That's where we have
Speaker 4: our highest ceiling. So, you know, not to be so
Speaker 4: generic here and I should say general, but like, it
Speaker 4: really is just gonna be about matchups.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 4: Florida is a team that when they're at their best,
Speaker 4: they're playing the same exact way Kentucky wants to play.
Speaker 4: Just turned out that Kentucky was better at it on
Speaker 4: that night in Lexington. So you know, I think teams
Speaker 4: like Mississippi State, Texas A, and M not great matchups.
Speaker 4: Kentucky could win. But like those teams, I think if
Speaker 4: they're able to get the game played the way they
Speaker 4: want to play it, it's going to be it's gonna
Speaker 4: be a tougher game for Kentucky, they're gonna be vulnerable
Speaker 4: to lose to those teams for a couple of reasons.
Speaker 4: One style, but also those teams are good. But then
Speaker 4: they've got Alabama at home, and I think it's another
Speaker 4: scenario where it kind of just turns out. It kind
Speaker 4: of just ends up being who's got the better night.
Speaker 4: Maybe the home crowd really gives you an edge because
Speaker 4: Alabama wants to do the exact same thing that that
Speaker 4: Kentucky wants to do. And maybe maybe on that day, Saturday,
Speaker 4: January eighteenth, maybe Kentucky you'll do it better, maybe Alabama
Speaker 4: will do it better. But then you get to teams
Speaker 4: like Tennessee Tennessee, and I don't I don't know enough
Speaker 4: about Vandy, but Tennessee's a team that they're they're not
Speaker 4: gonna want to play the same way Kentucky wants to play.
Speaker 4: They're going to slow it down like Rick Barnes did
Speaker 4: when when when he played Louisville. So last night kind
Speaker 4: of felt like the first big night where there's so
Speaker 4: many conference matchups going on in the Power Leagues, and uh,
Speaker 4: obviously if you're a Louisville fan, it worked out worked
Speaker 4: out good for you. All right, we got a lot
Speaker 4: of things we need to get into today. NFL playoffs
Speaker 4: will be here soon, in fact, just a few days away,
Speaker 4: and I've got I'm starting to get not worried. But
Speaker 4: like if Lamar Jackson and the Ravens somehow lose, which
Speaker 4: they easily could, like they're favored for good reason, they're
Speaker 4: playing a team with very little momentum. But like, I'm
Speaker 4: just not ready for the noise about Lamar Jackson not
Speaker 4: being as good of a quarterback as your eyeballs tell
Speaker 4: you because they lose to the Steelers in the playoffs,
Speaker 4: Like that doesn't really make any sense. Like he could
Speaker 4: play phenomenal, maybe have the best game of his career statistically,
Speaker 4: but if they lose, that will be the conversation. Yeah, Lamar,
Speaker 4: he's a good regular season quarterback, but he stinks in
Speaker 4: the playoffs.
Speaker 2: Like that's just what people are going to say.
Speaker 5: Also, he hasn't been too great against Pittsburgh in his
Speaker 5: career too, so Mike Tomlin's defense seems to have his number.
Speaker 4: I mean, he just played phenomenal against him, didn't he
Speaker 4: couple weeks ago? Like I thought he had like a
Speaker 4: great game against him recently.
Speaker 5: Oh, yeah, the one on Christmas. Yes, that's yeah, but
Speaker 5: like he usually in that matchup, I'm pretty sure it's ass.
Speaker 2: And that's I mean, Tomlin, I feel like is the kind.
Speaker 4: Of guy that would would really thrive at at you know,
Speaker 4: making quarterbacks uncomfortable because you know that's kind of his
Speaker 4: his mo. But it doesn't matter, Like I'm to the
Speaker 4: point we're like even all that's true, like like the
Speaker 4: Ravens need to go win, like the whole like, well,
Speaker 4: I don't know, like and I here, I am doing it,
Speaker 4: I guess, and I tried to, you know, not even
Speaker 4: worry about it, like, oh no, they'll.
Speaker 2: They'll go win because they're better.
Speaker 4: But I guess I'm starting to at least fear what
Speaker 4: the reaction is going to be because it's gonna be
Speaker 4: so obvious. It's going to be all Lamar's fault regardless,
Speaker 4: and really that's his own fault for being so good.
Speaker 4: That's his own fault for having two MVP trophies, and
Speaker 4: just like that's the standard you've set. That's how it
Speaker 4: works at this level of pro sports. So also the
Speaker 4: college football playoff, we've got the press conferences that took
Speaker 4: place today. James Franklin said some stuff I want to
Speaker 4: get into because I don't think he's wrong, but curious
Speaker 4: to get your all thoughts.
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Speaker 4: So just a couple of couple of facts stats notes
Speaker 4: here from Kelly Dickey, UFL statistical guru, a great follow
Speaker 4: on Twitter at at Real Card Game, and we're gonna
Speaker 4: get the phone lines just a second bit.
Speaker 2: I do want to mention this just because it's awesome.
Speaker 4: Louisville has won double digit one games by double digits
Speaker 4: against four straight conference opponents with winning records for the
Speaker 4: first time since January of twenty thirteen.
Speaker 2: So do with that whatever you want. But that's another sign.
Speaker 4: That it's this is this team's playing really good basketball
Speaker 4: right now.
Speaker 3: So we're gonna win the national champion.
Speaker 2: Yeah exactly.
Speaker 4: That's what happened in thirteen, So that's what's going to
Speaker 4: happen this year.
Speaker 2: Hell yeah.
Speaker 4: Also, this is a wild stat Louisville has two players
Speaker 4: with Hepburn and Hadley. I should have looked at Kelly
Speaker 4: Dicky's twitter at camp before I started the show today,
Speaker 4: because at that point I would have known that that
Speaker 4: there wasn't just one thirty thirty point performance so far
Speaker 4: this year, that Chucky also had one.
Speaker 2: However, Louisville having two players with thirty.
Speaker 4: Point games in the season, this is the first time
Speaker 4: that's happened since nineteen ninety three ninety four, and that
Speaker 4: was Dwayne Morden and Cliff rose Eer. So this team, man,
Speaker 4: they're playing really good basketball and I'm loving it.
Speaker 2: I really am. Let's go to the phone lines.
Speaker 4: Five two, five seven, one seventy nine hundred is the
Speaker 4: number if you guys would like to jump in on
Speaker 4: the phone lines.
Speaker 2: Let's go to TD. What's happening, Welcome.
Speaker 6: In Coffee and Company. How are you having Wednesday?
Speaker 2: Doing well?
Speaker 3: How you doing?
Speaker 2: Brother?
Speaker 6: Hey, I listen. I'm a huge, avid, long lifelong U
Speaker 6: of L fan and earlier I'm kind of paraphrasing, but
Speaker 6: you made the comment that if you this was kind
Speaker 6: of a stem from the win against Clemson last night.
Speaker 6: They're impressive win, and you said something the effect of
Speaker 6: if you focus maybe too much on UIL basketball, that
Speaker 6: it might not make for good radio, and they got
Speaker 6: me thinking. Yeah, it got me thinking though, because you know,
Speaker 6: and and I'm not a Matt Jones fan, I don't
Speaker 6: like the UK, I've never liked UK, and but I
Speaker 6: just wanted to get a sense for how you would
Speaker 6: compare your show to his or your listening audience. And
Speaker 6: do you tend to get the majority of UBIL fans
Speaker 6: or is it kind of split? And I'll let you
Speaker 6: chat even Ivan Lamar Jackson and the college football playoff.
Speaker 6: But I just thought to throw that out at you
Speaker 6: because it resonated with me. And I really appreciate all
Speaker 6: you guys do and say so thank.
Speaker 2: Thank you much appreciate the call.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I tu this is actually a good question. I
Speaker 4: always like questions sort of about the show because it's
Speaker 4: something I enjoy talking about. It's something I care about
Speaker 4: a whole lot. But you know, it is a show,
Speaker 4: so I think it makes sense to kind of keep
Speaker 4: it flowing and do the show. But since you asked,
Speaker 4: I will gladly share with you sort of what I
Speaker 4: try to do with with KSR.
Speaker 2: That show is.
Speaker 4: And look, I get why people may not be a
Speaker 4: big fan of said show. I get why people may
Speaker 4: not be a big fan of Matt if you're a
Speaker 4: Louisville fan, because you know that he's really good at
Speaker 4: what he does trolling Louisville fans and being a Kentucky
Speaker 4: fan that has a huge platform, and you know we're rivals,
Speaker 4: so you know, I get it, But I think anybody
Speaker 4: who has listened to the show would would probably honestly,
Speaker 4: maybe you just don't like him, I don't know, but
Speaker 4: it's entertaining, and it's more entertainment than it is any
Speaker 4: It's an entertaining talk show where sports is certainly a component.
Speaker 4: The state of Kentucky is a big part of it,
Speaker 4: and of course UK stuff is a big part of it,
Speaker 4: and you know, make it or take you know, talking
Speaker 4: U of l is also a part of it too,
Speaker 4: because you know, that's it works, right, taking shots at
Speaker 4: Louisville and you know, making fun of the rival whenever
Speaker 4: you have the opportunity, and let's be real, we've given
Speaker 4: them many opportunities over the years. So you know, that
Speaker 4: was I guess them my disclaimer. But now that that's
Speaker 4: out of the way, that show is something that you
Speaker 4: don't see anywhere else, Like there's no other version of
Speaker 4: that elsewhere. Yeah, there are shows that probably have a
Speaker 4: big following for sports radio in this state that mostly
Speaker 4: Tennessee fans are mostly Arkansas fans or whatever, but not
Speaker 4: to the level of that show. And it's just, I
Speaker 4: mean it's different. I mean, Austin, you can attest to this.
Speaker 4: KSR is a different world when it comes to reach
Speaker 4: and just what it is. So one thing I am
Speaker 4: a little jealous of KSR is that they have a
Speaker 4: lot more components to it, right, like they've and I'm
Speaker 4: not calling these guys this to insult them. I mean
Speaker 4: it in a good way. They have characters within their show,
Speaker 4: right Channon Ryan obviously, Matt then and Drew who's now
Speaker 4: on the show I think regularly, maybe every day. So
Speaker 4: you know, I have never really had a whole lot
Speaker 4: to work with until you know, recently, Austin's been a big,
Speaker 4: big part of it. So we have a lot in common.
Speaker 4: Austin and I do same thing with the company man.
Speaker 4: So you know, I try to tell myself each day
Speaker 4: I've got three hours, and I realize if somebody's coming
Speaker 4: to a sports talk station, they they're there for sports content.
Speaker 4: But also, you know, I think there are certain things
Speaker 4: within the world of sports that I think it's hard
Speaker 4: to make it entertaining. At the end of the day,
Speaker 4: that's what this is entertainment. This is entertainment. We are entertainers.
Speaker 4: It sounds very cringe to say that out loud, but
Speaker 4: it's just the truth. Because since I've been in radio,
Speaker 4: to be honest with you, which been a long time now,
Speaker 4: I've been in iHeart for nine years. I've technically worked
Speaker 4: in radio in some former fashion for going on fourteen
Speaker 4: years of thirteen years something like that.
Speaker 2: So when you think about what radio.
Speaker 4: Once was, many many, many years ago, you used to
Speaker 4: come to the radio because you that's where you would
Speaker 4: get information. Didn't we didn't have the internet, right or
Speaker 4: you know, maybe we had the Internet, but we didn't
Speaker 4: have social media, So you know, info was this was.
Speaker 4: This platform here still reaches a ton of people and
Speaker 4: always will, but it's no longer because you need us
Speaker 4: to tell you what's.
Speaker 2: Going on in the world. We can do that.
Speaker 4: We we do do that, but now you can get
Speaker 4: that on your phone. So you have to you have
Speaker 4: to find ways to be entertaining. And that's not because
Speaker 4: you're busting jokes and you're just the funniest person ever.
Speaker 4: It's just because you're you're sharing interesting and you know,
Speaker 4: creative and creative, you know, interesting and entertaining things, and
Speaker 4: you're putting your own creativity on it. So you know,
Speaker 4: to answer your question, I mean, that's what I aim
Speaker 4: to do, is to just entertain as best we can.
Speaker 4: And some people may think, man, that's it's terrible because
Speaker 4: it's not entertaining at all. And if that's the case,
Speaker 4: you know, thank you for listening anyway, I suppose, But yes,
Speaker 4: there's not anything I'm probably gonna tell you on this
Speaker 4: show that you couldn't easily find out on your own,
Speaker 4: as far as like what's going on in sports, if
Speaker 4: that makes sense. So we try to entertain and have
Speaker 4: some fun, and clearly there's a lot of sports flavor,
Speaker 4: and I think there are certain days where we are
Speaker 4: going to be real heavy into like what's going on locally,
Speaker 4: for example, when Louisville Basketball was hiring a coach, Kentucky
Speaker 4: Basketball hired a coach. Like those are things, and those
Speaker 4: are things that really will dominate the show. And also
Speaker 4: it's things that you know, it's something that people who
Speaker 4: wouldn't regularly listen, people who don't listen every day because
Speaker 4: they're you know, they just don't listen to the radio
Speaker 4: a whole lot. But you know what, man, there's a
Speaker 4: coaching search going on. Or Cali Perry, he's out walking
Speaker 4: his dog in Lexington. Is he really leaving? This is crazy?
Speaker 4: Let's tune into a sports show. So you know, you
Speaker 4: try to balance it out. But yeah, I mean, what's.
Speaker 3: Going on with Noah Waterman? That's when you listen.
Speaker 4: To us, Yeah, exactly whenever I try to think of
Speaker 4: like days because I get his own head a lot
Speaker 4: with that kind of stuff, because I counsid here and
Speaker 4: talk a lot of basketball for three straight hours, and
Speaker 4: I'd be I mean, I would easily fill the time.
Speaker 4: But I just don't know how I would be able
Speaker 4: to do that, you know, and keep it interesting or entertaining,
Speaker 4: I should say. So, you know, and I know there
Speaker 4: are people that listen because they're they just are become
Speaker 4: they've become fans of the show. They like talk radio,
Speaker 4: and they're not huge Louisville fans. They just kind of
Speaker 4: casually root for Louisville and their transplants dif'from other cities.
Speaker 4: So I just try to, you know, I try to.
Speaker 2: I hate that we have.
Speaker 4: I mean, I know why we have, like target demos
Speaker 4: and whatnot. Like I understand all that, and it's it's
Speaker 4: important to target a specific demo so our sales team
Speaker 4: can go out and sell advertising to companies that want
Speaker 4: to reach that specific demo. So like, I understand how
Speaker 4: all it works. But I also hate in my mind
Speaker 4: doing a show thinking to myself, all right, I need
Speaker 4: to be focused on this certain group of people, because
Speaker 4: I feel like if you can make it very welcoming
Speaker 4: to a wide range of people, different ages, different different interests,
Speaker 4: that of stuff like, that's where you really have a
Speaker 4: chance to, you know, to make your show great, to
Speaker 4: reach to reach more people. So anyways, I hope I
Speaker 4: made some sense there, Like.
Speaker 5: You're also here in the studio today, so that means
Speaker 5: finally got your car out?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 4: Was that?
Speaker 2: Sul So?
Speaker 3: What went on with the whole driveway? Situation.
Speaker 5: Did you finally get that or did you happen to
Speaker 5: stumble upon somebody that was able to do it for you,
Speaker 5: or how'd you dig yourself out of year yard?
Speaker 4: I didn't do anything, okay at all. My wife came
Speaker 4: home and this I'm glad you asked because this is
Speaker 4: like my wife, her brother, my brother in law, Nate.
Speaker 3: He is.
Speaker 4: He's like the one of the best dudes in the world.
Speaker 4: Anybody who knows him would agree. He's very much a
Speaker 4: blue collar guy and he's you know, he's mister fixed It.
Speaker 4: He's he's an outdoorsman.
Speaker 2: He's he's he's.
Speaker 4: Big into hunting, like he has a lot his career
Speaker 4: path and his interests are much different than mine. Doesn't
Speaker 4: mean we're not super close. I love the guy, but
Speaker 4: you know, he he's always kind of been like, if
Speaker 4: something's not working at the house, instead of asking me,
Speaker 4: my wife's just gonna call her brother. And it's because
Speaker 4: you know, she's close with her brother. But like sometimes
Speaker 4: I'm like, honey, I can change the light bulb. We
Speaker 4: don't have to call your brother to come do it.
Speaker 4: That's an exaggeration. She's never done that, But like, you know,
Speaker 4: sometimes I wish she would at least let me see
Speaker 4: if maybe I could fix it, or maybe I would
Speaker 4: do it before she, you know, just assumes that she
Speaker 4: needs to rely on her brother. And he's the same thing,
Speaker 4: and he'll he'll always he'll always help because he's great,
Speaker 4: and clearly there are a lot of things that he he,
Speaker 4: he can do that I wouldn't even know where to start.
Speaker 4: But then there's other things, like, you know, like, so,
Speaker 4: here's what happened, and it just makes me feel like
Speaker 4: a piece of garbage. But this is how it played out.
Speaker 4: I barely got back in time to do the show
Speaker 4: because of my situation where my car got stuck sideways
Speaker 4: in my driveway on a hill. But you know, I
Speaker 4: got to work, so I came inside, fired up the equipment,
Speaker 4: we got the show started, and she knew, Hey, the
Speaker 4: car stuck and she wouldn't even be able to get
Speaker 4: up the driveway right.
Speaker 2: So we would have had.
Speaker 4: We not gotten it taken care of, we would have
Speaker 4: had my car just sitting sideways. Maybe you know, I
Speaker 4: don't think it would have moved, but like just sitting
Speaker 4: there not being able to move, stuck in the middle
Speaker 4: of the driveway in her vehicle which could get up
Speaker 4: the driveway because it's it's got it's better capable as
Speaker 4: far as handling this kind of weather. My car's blocking
Speaker 4: it and we can't move it. So we were in
Speaker 4: a tough spot. So she left work early. She came
Speaker 4: home and she called her brother, and I go out
Speaker 4: to just check on my car, like the four o'clock
Speaker 4: starting the four o'clock hour yesterday, and he's out there
Speaker 4: shoveling my driveway, you know, getting basically bailing us out.
Speaker 4: And my wife's out there helping him too, and you know,
Speaker 4: like here I am inside in the warm, now I'm working,
Speaker 4: so again, I'm doing my job like there's nothing I
Speaker 4: can do about it, like, but it just, you know,
Speaker 4: just made me feel worthless whenever I had no I
Speaker 4: didn't put I didn't break a sweat at all.
Speaker 3: There's no sweat out.
Speaker 2: And it was and it wasn't.
Speaker 4: Easy like they you know, I think there were probably
Speaker 4: like four different times they'd got it to where they
Speaker 4: felt like it was clear enough to where the car
Speaker 4: could get moved and get up the driveway. But at
Speaker 4: six o'clock when we ended the show, they were just
Speaker 4: now they were just then able to I guess get
Speaker 4: enough ice off the way to where they could get
Speaker 4: the get my.
Speaker 2: Vehicle back up into the garage.
Speaker 4: So but I will say I didn't want to leave yesterday, right,
Speaker 4: So maybe maybe she felt the need to get it
Speaker 4: fixed now because she thinks I'll never do it and
Speaker 4: I'm worthless.
Speaker 2: She's got to call her little brother.
Speaker 4: Uh, maybe she just realized, Hey, he did tell me
Speaker 4: that if I, if he leaves in the vehicle, his vehicle,
Speaker 4: that we will have a tough time getting back up
Speaker 4: the driveway. And that's that's exactly what happened. So anyways, that.
Speaker 2: That's how uh, that's how it worked out.
Speaker 4: And I left and came back today and was able
Speaker 4: to get up the driveway without issue. So uh, it
Speaker 4: was snowing when I walked in, though, So I don't know,
Speaker 4: maybe we've got like maybe we're getting like some unex
Speaker 4: like I'm not kidding you. I I was out early
Speaker 4: this morning. Yeah, and i've been you know, even when
Speaker 4: I was at home. I was upstairs where I can
Speaker 4: see outside, like it's been snowing all day wherever I've
Speaker 4: been bit but it doesn't look like it's building anything.
Speaker 2: So I guess that's good. It's not gonna Hopefully.
Speaker 3: That's a light little snowfall.
Speaker 4: Yeah, hopefully doesn't impact the roads too bad. So anyways,
Speaker 4: all right, let's see here. I want to get to
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Speaker 4: I don't have a hard time thinking there's any truth
Speaker 4: to this. But maybe I'm wrong Bill Belichick. Maybe he
Speaker 4: never coaches a game at Carolina because now NFL teams
Speaker 4: are interested.
Speaker 2: Of course, it can't be a thing, right.
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 5: It's like when you see someone's finally taken, that's when
Speaker 5: you want them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, that's true that they see.
Speaker 5: Him like, oh he's in college now, yeah, you can
Speaker 5: just poach him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just interesting.
Speaker 4: I think going in that direction right now in the NFL,
Speaker 4: it just doesn't make a whole lot of sense. But
Speaker 4: you know, he's he's a guy that has a lot
Speaker 4: of Super Bowls and that carries a lot of weight
Speaker 4: when it comes to checking resumes and credentials for those
Speaker 4: that maybe fit to uh to run an NFL team.
Speaker 5: Funny, if all that was for nothing, the whole I know,
Speaker 5: that would be It would be so embarrassing for Carolina,
Speaker 5: wouldn't it.
Speaker 3: That would be great?
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Speaker 4: So may this may not shock any of you, but
Speaker 4: I don't and have never had an agent, and I
Speaker 4: probably never will. Not sure why I wouldever need one,
Speaker 4: And I've always felt like maybe they're not worthy of
Speaker 4: what they get as far as you know, the percentages
Speaker 4: and all that. I mean, I guess you know they
Speaker 4: are there to look out for your best interest and
Speaker 4: you know, not to say they don't matter, but I've
Speaker 4: never really understood. You know, Lamar Jackson is a good example.
Speaker 4: I think his you know, the PR the optics didn't
Speaker 4: play out well for him during that, but you know,
Speaker 4: he's in a great position and he has been consistent
Speaker 4: he never wanted an agent, and he's doing okay. But
Speaker 4: I you know, long story short, I think I've been
Speaker 4: reminded why agents have value, because they can influence the air.
Speaker 4: They can control what is being said about their client,
Speaker 4: even if it's you know, not true. Now, sometimes an
Speaker 4: agent can't bail you out if you've got a story
Speaker 4: out there from a PR perspective.
Speaker 2: That's a nightmare. I mean, they're not able to do that.
Speaker 4: But right now, Bill Belichick, I mean, he had no
Speaker 4: interest from the NFL, which he was bothered by, surprised by. Therefore,
Speaker 4: he wanted to go to the college route and show, hey,
Speaker 4: you know I can still get it done. I'm still
Speaker 4: a great coach. That was reportedly what led to him
Speaker 4: wanting to go to college is because he wasn't getting
Speaker 4: much bites in the NFL. And you know, it's a network, right,
Speaker 4: he knew, everybody knew which jobs were going to be
Speaker 4: open hex some of the jobs opened up during the season,
Speaker 4: and clearly Belichick did not feel like he had he
Speaker 4: had a chance to getting one of those jobs, because
Speaker 4: he decided to take the North Carolina job, which still
Speaker 4: just doesn't even seem real, but it's real. So now
Speaker 4: we're supposed to believe that after he took the Carolina
Speaker 4: job that now NFL teams are interested, Like I just
Speaker 4: don't believe that. Now the athletic is reporting it was
Speaker 4: of all teams, the Raiders that that you know wanted
Speaker 4: to to talk to him, which is essentially Tom Brady, who,
Speaker 4: of course, I mean, but don't they hate each other
Speaker 4: like I mean the and by the way, that was
Speaker 4: a late that was a late firing. I mean, I
Speaker 4: guess it wasn't too late. I mean that didn't happen
Speaker 4: until yesterday, right, Pierce gets fired. So Tuesday, Yeah, Black Tuesday.
Speaker 4: So you know, maybe they weren't anticipating making a change
Speaker 4: and then they did, and then you know, they actually
Speaker 4: would be the one school or the one team that
Speaker 4: would have wanted Belichick had he not gone to Carolina, Like.
Speaker 2: But I don't know.
Speaker 4: Again, I just Brady owns the Raiders. He's one of
Speaker 4: the many owners of the team. He's going to be
Speaker 4: the guy interviewing coaches and having an influence and said decision.
Speaker 4: Like I think both like why would Tom. Maybe maybe
Speaker 4: Brady would want Belichick because he would be able to
Speaker 4: say that he gave him a job when nobody else
Speaker 4: would Like.
Speaker 2: Maybe that's it.
Speaker 4: But with Belichick, like you probably want to prove a
Speaker 4: lot of doubters wrong. You probably never will be able
Speaker 4: to in the NFL, but of all places to do it,
Speaker 4: you want to go do it for a team that
Speaker 4: Tom Brady owns, Like these two guys clearly did not.
Speaker 4: You know, I think there's there's respect there because you know,
Speaker 4: they just respect each other in their world of football
Speaker 4: competition that kind of stuff. But yeah, that didn't end well.
Speaker 4: I mean, let's be honest, it didn't end well. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and you know Brady wanted to stick it to him
Speaker 4: in Tampa and he did exactly that. I do think
Speaker 4: that you could you could sense that, maybe you know,
Speaker 4: the roast of Tom Brady on Netflix, which Belichick was
Speaker 4: a part of that, I think without really not even
Speaker 4: anything that was said, but I think that whole experience
Speaker 4: and kind of seeing both of them in that moment,
Speaker 4: you can you can feel that there's there's clearly tension. Yeah,
Speaker 4: like they they're not gonna fight each other, They're not
Speaker 4: gonna go all out. I mean, they're not gonna go
Speaker 4: public and bash each other, but like there's just something there.
Speaker 4: So I just I don't know why. I don't know
Speaker 4: why Belichick would even entertain that.
Speaker 5: So in like the last few years of Belichick in
Speaker 5: and or Brady with Belichick in the Patriots, because there's
Speaker 5: always something that comes up with the Patriots and there's
Speaker 5: a weird love triangle between the Robert Kraft added into
Speaker 5: it too, because Tom was still kind of angry that
Speaker 5: they signed, that they even drafted Jimmy Garoppolo in the
Speaker 5: first place.
Speaker 3: And then when.
Speaker 4: That's when it got that's when it got dicey, is
Speaker 4: that that that Bill wanted wanted to more so quickly
Speaker 4: move to Garoppolo and Craft basically listened to Brady and
Speaker 4: decided to get rid of Garoppolo, and then it really
Speaker 4: just created some big Yeah, it was just kind of
Speaker 4: done at that point as far as you know, as
Speaker 4: far as the you know, I mean, I think they
Speaker 4: actually still stuck around to they win another super Bowl together.
Speaker 5: Yeah they did, yeah, I think yeah. Earlier, Yeah, I
Speaker 5: think is when that happened and they go and win
Speaker 5: the super Bowl. Every time that the Patriots win a
Speaker 5: super Bowl, there's always something, yes, that happened.
Speaker 4: So clearly, you know, they were still able to succeed,
Speaker 4: but like it just was not a great working relationship,
Speaker 4: which is again why Brady left to go play elsewhere
Speaker 4: and he won a super Bowl. So the agent clearly
Speaker 4: is putting this out there. I mean I shouldn't say
Speaker 4: I know that for fact, but like it just doesn't
Speaker 4: make a whole lot of sense if you think about it.
Speaker 4: And speaking of that, another agent that I have to
Speaker 4: give a lot of credit to is whoever is the
Speaker 4: agent of Mike McCarthy. I mean, he's been for what
Speaker 4: three years now, lucky to keep his job. It's been
Speaker 4: a big talking point. Will Jerry ever get rid of him?
Speaker 4: Get rid of this guy?
Speaker 2: He's a bum.
Speaker 3: I don't know how he's still there.
Speaker 2: So I'm supposed to believe that the Bears.
Speaker 4: Wanted to interview him and they were denied, Like, I
Speaker 4: guess that's something that could be checked, Like that's something
Speaker 4: that it would be hard to just make up because
Speaker 4: I guess the Bears can say, uh, yeah, we didn't
Speaker 4: request to interview him.
Speaker 2: Why would we do that? So maybe there is some
Speaker 2: truth to it, But like.
Speaker 4: It getting out there and it being in the news
Speaker 4: wire like it is, and it being discussed the way
Speaker 4: it is by the loud mouse that covered the NFL
Speaker 4: like chefty, they're getting all that from agents, like that's
Speaker 4: to make McCarthy look good, because the Bears, I don't
Speaker 4: believe that they would want to interview him.
Speaker 2: Maybe I'm wrong. They certainly wouldn't hire him.
Speaker 3: That would be such a weird fit.
Speaker 4: It was, well, it would just like he wasn't good
Speaker 4: at the end of is Green Bay tenure? Yeah, and
Speaker 4: he's not been good in Dallas. He's been there since
Speaker 4: twenty twenty and.
Speaker 2: He's he's they I mean they've.
Speaker 4: This is not just him, clearly, other coaches have had
Speaker 4: the same sort of you know, vibe to him.
Speaker 2: But like they've underachieved in Dallas.
Speaker 3: Oh, I think they've won a playoff game with him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it won. No, he's not won a
Speaker 2: playoff game at Aallas game in Dallas, he lost, he lost.
Speaker 4: He just finished his fifth year and he's gone to
Speaker 4: the playoffs three times, and he lost to the Niners
Speaker 4: in the wild card game in twenty one, he lost
Speaker 4: to the Niners in the divisional game in twenty two,
Speaker 4: and he lost to the Packers last year in the
Speaker 4: wild card game. So when Dak was having a great season, yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean, look, I'm sorry. He did win one game
Speaker 4: they beat in twenty twenty two. They beat somebody to
Speaker 4: get to the NFC Divisional round. But either way, like
Speaker 4: Mike McCarthy's a guy that had a long tenure in
Speaker 4: Green Bay and he was successful there, did have a
Speaker 4: Super Bowl, but you know, didn't finish strong and was
Speaker 4: out of the league for a year or two and
Speaker 4: then Dallas hires him. And I'm not sure many would
Speaker 4: call his stint they're remotely successful given the standard an
Speaker 4: expectation for the Cowboys.
Speaker 2: So I don't know.
Speaker 4: I just I think agents are way more able to
Speaker 4: kind of float fake stuff than we realize. I mean,
Speaker 4: there's certain things that when they get out there, like
Speaker 4: you just know where it's coming from. And that doesn't
Speaker 4: like sometimes like they're just they're breaking legitimate news, like hey,
Speaker 4: my client just signed this deal for this amount of money.
Speaker 4: These are the terms, Go ahead and break it that.
Speaker 4: That's just you, you know, honestly, that's you showing off.
Speaker 4: If it's a big impressive deal, everybody's going to think about, Wow,
Speaker 4: that team paid big bucks for this guy, or this
Speaker 4: guy just became stupid rich forever. But the agent's thinking, yeah,
Speaker 4: it's all me. I did that because technically, you know,
Speaker 4: they are the Their job is to to always be
Speaker 4: trying to get an advantage for their client in some
Speaker 4: form or fashion. And you know that's why. I mean,
Speaker 4: if you think about it, these coaches that get extensions
Speaker 4: for seemingly no reason, these coaches that get you know, raises,
Speaker 4: you know, they're I feel like it's more in college
Speaker 4: than it is anything else. But you see a story
Speaker 4: this school has extended their coach to this point or
Speaker 4: this school has decided, you know, has has added some
Speaker 4: kind of stipulation to the contract. Like a lot of
Speaker 4: times that's not necessarily needed. But you know why it happens,
Speaker 4: because the agent's job is to never be satisfied, always
Speaker 4: be trying to find a way where you can make
Speaker 4: a case and make a claim true or not, that
Speaker 4: your client is deserving of more. And if you're not
Speaker 4: going to give them more, just know that there's somebody
Speaker 4: else out there will All that could be nonsense and
Speaker 4: not true, but again that's an agent's job, so you know,
Speaker 4: more power to them. Maybe I you know, I don't.
Speaker 4: I don't even know why wouldever need one. But like
Speaker 4: if I could get one, hell yeah, but I don't,
Speaker 4: you know, they'd have to do it for you know,
Speaker 4: maybe some free Thornton swag because I don't make enough
Speaker 4: money to where I could give anybody any kind of cut.
Speaker 5: Imagine me hitting you up, like, hey, Nick, you want
Speaker 5: to go to a you want to go to a
Speaker 5: Louisville basketball game?
Speaker 3: Talk my agent?
Speaker 2: I mean I can't. I wouldn't. By the way, if
Speaker 2: I ever get an agent, just know you don't have
Speaker 2: to have to do that.
Speaker 3: I don't have to get you.
Speaker 2: You would be.
Speaker 4: Able to be in direct contact with me. So just
Speaker 4: know that people won't have to talk. That's how that's
Speaker 4: how highly I think of you. I mean you go,
Speaker 4: Austin was was alongside last night for for the whole
Speaker 4: family there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, whole family went to the game.
Speaker 3: Whole family.
Speaker 2: We got to meet Moose and Maya. How sweet was
Speaker 2: my dude?
Speaker 3: Made my night?
Speaker 5: I show, I go, I go to give you a
Speaker 5: dap up and go to a hug the wonderful Tiffany
Speaker 5: and she's she snipes Tiffany hug she got, I'm going
Speaker 5: to give him a hug and that just that just
Speaker 5: made my whole night.
Speaker 4: Yeah, she's she's a sweetheart and that that's a good sign.
Speaker 4: She just met Austin for the first time and she
Speaker 4: knew we were all going our separate ways after the game,
Speaker 4: and uh, you know, she wanted to make it clear,
Speaker 4: I need a hug.
Speaker 2: Before you get out of here. So that doesn't need
Speaker 2: a hug. Good man.
Speaker 4: You you were the sad sad fan for a long
Speaker 4: time where you had told me that you've gone to
Speaker 4: Louisville games and every time you go they lose. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and we've gone to back to back home games. And
Speaker 4: how about the vibes man.
Speaker 5: There's Miller lights, there's Bush lights. That right, there's Moose
Speaker 5: on the Jumbo trump.
Speaker 4: That's right, Moose was getting rowdy, like, how about Moose?
Speaker 4: Wording is Javon Hadley Jersey for the Javon Hadley game?
Speaker 3: Yeah, right there, he could have.
Speaker 5: I'm pretty sure Hadley like saw him too, because we
Speaker 5: all had to.
Speaker 2: Yeah, had he had to have been a he.
Speaker 4: And by the way, the score Louisville was down four
Speaker 4: whenever they put him up on the on the big screen,
Speaker 4: Moose and then and then Louisville took over, Like, I
Speaker 4: don't think that's a coincidence that then they took over.
Speaker 3: The place went crazy and he got to meet Cassan too.
Speaker 2: That's right, that's right.
Speaker 3: What a night.
Speaker 5: They need to make a movie about that. Moose's night
Speaker 5: out on the town.
Speaker 2: He's he's living his best life.
Speaker 4: I don't think the kid realizes how how how awesome
Speaker 4: he's got it, and uh, you know, he's a lot
Speaker 4: of fun. All right, We got to get to a break.
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